I have Mike's dissertation on treating skins (pdf). Drop me a PM with an email address, and I'll send it to you.

Kirk

Ring-necked pheasant skin. 4 to 8 different types/patterns of feathers (windowpane, speckled, dark list, etc), about as many different colors of feather.... And it's gorgeous!


Kirk

(I'd want a partridge skin, too.)

Just the other side of the stump in the foreground is a fast section followed by a chest deep pool. I'm gonna tie up a couple of these to try to dredge that pool. Should be a couple of nice fish in there.

Kirk

From Dictionary.com:
Nondescript - of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript color.

Also sounds like the ultimate match the hatch to me. I like all 3 of these.

Kirk

Thanks, Lance. A confession, after a fashion. I have fished for trout maybe a half dozed times in my life. All in the last 4-5 years. All stocked for put-and-take during the winter. Our rivers and creeks are just too hot for them to survive the summer. My primary species are the myriad species of pa...

Wow! That is gorgeous. So many colors, so many varieties. Slobber. Drool.

Kirk

Thank you kind folks.
Y'all can give yourselves a pat on the back as well, for inspiring me to try harder.

Kirk

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg176/07sgt2442/Flys/IMGP2180-A.jpg Hook - Mustad 3906B Size 12 Thread - UTC Rusty Brown - 140 Den Body - Olive Uni-Floss Rib - Gold Wire Collar - Orange Rabbit Body in Split Thread Hackle - Ring-neck Pheasant Shoulder This one did pretty well for me last weekend....

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg176/07sgt2442/Flys/IMGP2186cr.jpg Hook - Mustad 9672 Size 14 (I just have a bunch of them.) Thread - UTC Fl. Pink 70 Den Hackle - Pink Feather Boa Tied over the Eye Tail - Pink Feather Boa Marabou Body - Thread w/ overwrap of UTC Med Pearl Tinsel Rib - Silver Wi...

Hank,
I'm sure of myself, it's everybody else that wonders....

Kirk